iAd Makes Developers More Money Than Google. Or Does It?
Just as Apple’s iAds went into effect, we heard early reports of developers making ridiculous amounts of revenue from them. One particular developer posted his numbers to the social site Hacker News, showing that they had made about $1,400 in a single day. Obviously, those types of returns had other chomping at the bit to [...]
Read MorePayPal Courting Developers
It started last Tuesday when Markus forwarded an email he received from PayPal. The subject line sent me into a nice long peal of laughter. “Developers: Get Rich or Die Trying”, it read. As funny as PayPal using a 50 Cent reference was, what PayPal is offering is very intriguing. According to the email, the [...]
Read MoreWeekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, [...]
Read MoreThe Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008
Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com
Read MoreWeekly Money Trail 7-4-2008
Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps
Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools. Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation [...]
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